Phillip Island is the best observe on the MotoGP calendar – and probably the best observe on the earth together with Oliver’s Mount in Scarborough UK.
However how nicely are you aware this iconic and delightful circuit? Not nicely sufficient we predict! So under are eight wonderful Phillip Island information that each die-hard fan ought to know.
How it began
Phillip Island was named after a man known as ‘Phillip’ who discovered the land mass a few years in the past. Legend has it that Phillip, or ‘Phillo’ to his mates, was out driving his Ute one night time ready for the alcohol intoxication to put on off. It’s acknowledged that by way of his blurred imaginative and prescient he noticed the Island and determined to swim over to it in simply his underpants hoping there can be some native Aboriginals there that he may combat off and declare their land. When he arrived although he discovered the island abandoned of any clever life – which included himself. Nevertheless there have been a great deal of washed up ship components from all of the mysterious wrecks from the close by Bermuda Triangle. The folklore concludes that it was with these very components that Phillo started constructing the wonderful racetrack we all know at present – beginning with the bar.
Kangaroos
Phillip Island is filled with all method of unusual animals and birds – a majority of which in some way comically discover their manner on to the observe and are diminished to part degree after being hit by motorsport automobiles. A fan favorite, nonetheless, are Australia’s very personal Kangaroos – that are inclined to mingle with the followers trackside. Massive, silly trying and really aggressive they need to at all times be approached with excessive warning. The kangaroos might be harmful too.
Sheep
Together with aggressive Kangaroos and deadly arachnids Phillip Island can also be dwelling to a good few sheep! In actual fact Australian farmers shepherd 79 million sheep! Regardless of being sluggish, silly and following one another round aimlessly these creatures are extremely regarded down below – as are the sheep.
Ayers rock
Not located at Phillip Island however in Australia is Ayers Rock – the world’s dullest vacationer attraction. Situated someplace daft like wuggawagga Australians will journey for days and days to stare upon this huge rock and be amazed by the way it modifications colors relying on how darkish it’s – blissfully unaware that every one rocks in every single place do that. Worse nonetheless Ayes rock isn’t technically a rock both.
Consuming
Australian males like to drink. It’s predicted that extra beer might be drunk over the weekend trackside at Phillip Island than the remainder of the MotoGP races mixed particularly provided that in Qatar alcohol is banned together with consuming bacon – which in all probability explains why they’re at all times scrapping.
However why do the boys down below drink a lot? Historically it was for medical causes because it was believed that diluting your blood with alcohol would neutralise any venom from the abundance of horrifically lethal bugs and snakes that pollute the land. Nevertheless it’s additionally been confirmed that additional alcohol within the system helps the typical Aussie ‘knock their Sheila round’ quite a bit simpler when she foolishly buys the fallacious meat for the barbeque.
Stranger Issues
Within the hit Netflix sequence ‘Stranger Issues’ the chirpy but punchable youngsters from the 80’s mysteriously discover a gateway to the ‘the other way up’. Regardless of its identify the ‘the other way up’ has nothing to do with Australia. This place is filled with aggressive primitive aggressors and hideous creatures the place nobody would really wish to go to. The ‘Stranger Issues ‘the other way up’ place seems fairly unhealthy too.
Bradley Smith
As a result of Australia is on the opposite aspect of the planet issues are sometimes the other way up – it’s mild when it ought to be darkish, darkish when it ought to be mild and automobiles transformed to pickup vehicles are in some way widespread. Nevertheless the other way up it’s ‘down below’ nobody may probably have thought in 2014 issues would get so reversed that Bradley Smith may find yourself on the rostrum of a MotoGP race – however he did!
The end result induced such a shock within the Tutorial world (i.e. not in Australia itself) that many professors feared the end result may trigger a cut up within the spacetime continuum greater than the one in Lenny Kravitz’s pants that point his penis fell out on stage. Ultimately all the pieces was nice as Kravitz had a spare pair of strides. Additionally the universe didn’t implode.
Casey Stoner
Casey Stoner is, surely, the king of Phillip Island successful each MotoGP race from 2007 to 2012. Regardless of retiring from MotoGP years in the past with tiredness Stoner nonetheless has higher odds of successful the race at Phillip Island this 12 months than Luca Marina does.
The very best a part of Stoner’s reign although is how mad it makes die onerous Rossi followers when its talked about.
